Tenchi Muyo: Wasurenai
By
Long T. Tran
Author of Ryoko's Love
and
BGlanders
Author of Gentle Sound of Thunder
Disclaimer:
The characters you're about to read are owned and created by AIC/
Pioneer. I intend to use these characters solely for entertainment
purposes. I don't intend to
make any money.
Authors' Notes:
I'm taking a small and brief break from Ryoko's Love a bit. And
decided to write this little short story. This tale is a "what-if"
kind of scenario. What would happen if the OAV (after the events
of MNNE) Ryoko somehow ended up in the first Tenchi TV universe?
Well, let's see what happens....
This story is takes place after the events of TMiL.
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Peace at the Winter Countryside (OAV Universe)
Above the countryside and through the snowy skies, Ryoko flew
towards the blue roofed Masaki home. It's been a month since the New
Year rung in and the grounds have been covered by a week's worth of
snow. Coming back from running errands in town, Ryoko grumbled
unhappily as the cold frigid air enveloped her body as she crossed
the air. Ryoko carried two bags in her hands, one large one small,
The large bag had groceries and the small one contained medicine.
Washu was currently away on the planet Jurai, meeting the Juriain
Council discussing matters of Ryoko's Gems. Sasami and Aeka had to
accompany Washu.
<Grr! I hate running these stupid errands!> Ryoko thought angrily.
The only other persons left were Baby Mayuka, Ryo-Ohki, Tenchi,
Mihoshi, Kiyone Nobuyuki and Yosho. Nobuyuki was currently enjoying
his well deserved two-week vacation. Yosho is still your everyday
Priest/Royal Prince/Swordsman, nothing much has changed. Mihoshi and
Kiyone were on shore leave and were able to take care of Baby Mayuka
while Ryoko was out shopping in the city. Ryo-Ohki was probably
somewhere in the house eating one of her carrots.
Washu, Aeka, and Sasami were gone for two days and were not due back
until the end of next week, which meant that Ryoko finally is finally
alone with Tenchi. She should be happy, right? Wrong. A day after
the other girls left, Tenchi caught a high fever. For the past two
days, Ryoko had never been so worried about Tenchi. When his high
fever started up the other day, Tenchi was delirious.
Ryoko was in the living room watching TV, when Tenchi stood in front
of her and held up two pairs of pants, he asked. "Which pants should
I play with?"
Next, after asking her that bizarre question, he started yelling at
her accusing her of making the chestnuts talk. Then he went to bed
and was there ever since. For the past couple of days Tenchi slept
while Ryoko tended his health. Finally, this morning, the medicine
ran out and Ryoko volunteered over Kiyone to go shop. Ryoko was
nearly halfway home, in a few minutes, she can stop worrying about
leaving Tenchi's present condition.
Washu's Experiment (TV1 Universe)
Inside the dark Pseudo-lab, Washu ever-so-diligently worked on her
latest invention. Well, not exactly a new invention, more like an
upgrade to add an extra function to her Dimensional Tuner. After two
days of non-stop labor, Washu fused the silver cylinder to the
Tuner's main component (that eyeball looking thing).
"Yes! I'm finally finished!" Washu said happily. Then, Washu's
pair of puppets appeared on her shoulders. "All I have to do now is
flip the switch and see what lies beyond the known
boundaries of our universe!"
"You're the greatest, Washu!" Exclaimed Puppet A.
"You are a genius, Washu! The best in the whole wide universe!"
Said Puppet B.
"I know, I know." Washu replied confidently. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
After a minute of maniacal laughter, Washu regained her composure and
flipped the power switch. The Dimensional Tuner started to slightly
hum and rattle, to Washu peered over to the monitor that was
attached to the left-side of the tuner and watched patiently. The
screen flickered on and the picture danced through different mottles
of color. After a moment, the view screen finally settled down and
begun to focus. Eager to see what different universes exists,
Washu leans forward and stares hard at the screen. As the screen
focused, Washu witnessed her first parallel dimension. She saw a
parallel Ryoko, flying through a snowy sky, holding two different
bags in her hands. Washu noted the weather.
<Hmm. Looks like weather conditions coincide with each other even
throughout different
dimensions.>
"Hello, Washu!!!" Mihoshi greeted loudly, startling Washu in the
process.
Washu hugged her chest, gasping in a breath of air. "Mihoshi?! How
did you get in here?! I had alarms set throughout the lab!?"
"Oh, I don't know-"
Washu interrupted. "Never mind! Don't answer. I know how you got
through. You were lost, right?"
Mihoshi gasped in excitement. "That's so amazing! How did you know
that, Washu?"
Washu sighed, tiredly, she peered over to the monitor doing her best
to ignore the Blonde GP officer. Mihoshi stood next to Washu and
looked at the tuner curiously.
"So what are you looking at, Washu? What's Ryoko doing with all
those grocery bags? I thought she's outside playing in the snow with
Tenchi and the others."
"Actually, that's not the same Ryoko."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Washu sighed again, she didn't want to glance at Mihoshi at all.
"Okay, I upgraded this dimensional tuner to see how many other
dimensions that may exist beyond ours'. Basically, that's a
different Ryoko we're looking at and..."
"?" Mihoshi did not understand one word of Washu's lecture as her
mind wandered off, she unwittingly pushed a few buttons on the
Tuner's control console.
"As you can see, Mihoshi. The same Earth except different
possibilities! And-"
Washu heard a sudden high pitched whistle coming from the tuner's
mechanism. She peered over to Mihoshi and glared at her accusingly.
"Oops."
Mihoshi tried to look innocent. "What did you do!?!"
"Um well, I uh..."
"Never mind!!" Washu shouted as she quickly examined the diagnostic
displays of the tuner. The scientist was trying to figure out what
the Tuner was doing in order to undo it. Then the tuner started to
shake violently.
Pain (OAV)
In Mayuka's room, Kiyone watched as Mihoshi placed the blue-haired
baby into the crib.
"There you go little Mayuka." Mihoshi said happily as she tucked the
baby in.
Mayuka laughed softly while looking up at Mihoshi.
Kiyone smiled, she peered out the bedroom window and noticed Ryoko
flying towards the house. "Looks like Ryoko is finally returning."
"Oh goodie! Looks like Tenchi will get his medicine!" The blonde
said happily.
"You look after Mayuka, I'll go out and meet Ryoko."
"Okay."
Kiyone walked out of the bedroom and made her way towards the front
door.
Ryoko was only a minute away from reaching home when suddenly, a
surge of intense pain coursed through her body. The grocery bags
fell to the frozen ground and Ryoko disappeared.
Winter Fun (TV)
In front of the red-roofed, Masaki home. A little snow fight was
currently took Place.
"Come back here, Ryoko! You're not getting away THAT easily!"
Tenchi yelled loudly as he ran through the snow, chasing after the
flying space pirate. He throws a snowball at her.
"You can't get me, Tenchi! There's no way! Nyah nyah!" Ryoko
exclaimed as she dodged one of Tenchi's snowballs.
"We'll see about that!" Said another voice coming from behind Ryoko.
"Huh?" Ryoko said quizzically as she felt a small thump on the back
of head. She turned around, rubbed her hand against her head and
found snow on her hands.
Sasami laughed loudly.
"I told you so, Ryoko!" Tenchi said.
"Being sneaky, eh?" Ryoko said in a general manner with mock
accusation. Ryoko floated down to meet Sasami.
"Yep!" Replied the princess.
Tenchi walked up to the pair and smiled. Ryoko appears behind Tenchi
and hugs onto him, pressing her body.
"Oh Tenchi darling!"
Tenchi tensed. "R-Ryoko, you shouldn't..."
"Oh relax! I'm just showing my love for you."
"But..."
"No buts!" Ryoko interrupted again.
"Ryoko!" Aeka screamed as she angrily walked towards Tenchi and
Ryoko.
Tenchi sighed. "Oh boy. Here we go..."
"Oh look. It's princess grapehead."
Aeka stormed up to Tenchi and his new found appendage. Her face was
redder than the Yagami and her temper was through the roof, or in
this case, the sky.
"What did you call me, Miss Ryoko?" Aeka's face turned even redder
as Tenchi braced for the inevitable.
"I called you a grape head, but looking at your face, I guess you're
more of a beet." Ryoko laughed as Aeka's logs started to float
beside her.
"HOW DARE YOU...!"
That's when the snowball hit her square in the back of the head.
Aeka swung around, her eyes two blazing infernos of rage, only to
find a smiling Sasami standing behind her.
"Aeka, calm down. Try to have some fun!" Sasami giggled as Aeka's
rage slowly turned from the space pirate to the tiny princess.
"Sasami..." Aeka obviously didn't take the joke well.
"Come on, Tenchi. Let's leave these two alone and find a fire place
to snuggle in front of."
Ryoko cooed as she started to drag a flailing Tenchi behind her.
"Ryoko, stop! Let me go!"
"Aw come on Tenchi, it'll be fun. The two of us, a roaring fire, a
snuggly blanket... Just me and you and you and me, Tenchi."
"I don't wanna! Help me Sasami...!"
Sasami would have helped, had she not been running from a hailstorm
of snowballs provided by a not-so-furious Aeka.
"It's no use running, Sasami! You cannot escape! Azaka! Kamadaki!"
"Yes ma'am." The two logs chimmed as they materialized beside the
elder princess.
"I order you to capture princess Sasami and to bring her to me!"
"Yes ma'am." The two logs started to float after the fleeing
princess.
"No fair Aeka!" Sasami called back as she took off over a nearby
hill.
Aeka watched the Guardians in their pursuit, then suddenly realized
why she had been so angry in the first place. She spun around, only
to find nothing at all.
"MISS RYOKO...!"
Pain (OAV)
Pain. Searing, white-hot pain. Ryoko could feel it coursing through
her entire body. A thousand white-hot needles. A million daggers
piercing every inch of flesh. Light as bright and as hot as the sun.
Pain as cold and as dark as the blackest void. Ryoko felt all this,
and so much more that I dare not describe.
She had been flying towards the house, the medicine safe in her arms,
when suddenly all hell had broken loose. Finally, as unexplainably
as it had started,
The pain stopped.
Ryoko felt herself falling, her body now too weak to respond to any
mental commands. She could feel her body shutting down, but before
she passed out completely, she caught sight of a small, blue-haired
child directly below her.
"Sasami..?" Ryoko horasly whispered as the world around her faded to
black.
Sasami's Discovery (TV)
Sasami bolted over the snowy hill, giggling and smiling as the
Guardians stayed in hot pursuit.
"Nyah-Nyah, you'll never catch me!" Sasami sung as she tossed
snowballs at the two floating
logs.
"Please princess, cease your running." Azaka chirped.
"Yes, this is rather pointless, as are your attacks." Joined in
Kamadaki.
Sasami just continued to laugh.
"Don't you two know what a snowball fight is?"
"Snowball..."
"...Fight?"
Sasami stopped to catch her breath. The logs, intrigued by the young
princesses words, stopped to listen.
"Tell us of this snowball fight." Azaka said, a sweat drop starting
to form on his side.
"Well, you pick up snow like this.." Sasami took some snow from the
ground and started to pack it into a ball.
"And you pack it down like this.." Then Sasami took aim at Kamadaki.
"Then you throw it at someone, like this!" With that, Sasami let the
snowball fly. It landed square in Kamadaki's monitor.
"Ahh, I see now." Said Azaka.
"I don't" Said a now blind Kamadaki.
"Hmm, may we try, princess?" Azaka asked. Sasami nodded, a smile on
her face. That smile quickly vanished as a huge mound of snow rose
from the space between the logs and broke up into hundreds of fist-
shaped balls of snow.
"Oboy..."
Seconds before the Guardians let loose, a shadow appeared between
them and Sasami. Seconds later, Ryoko landed with a loud FWOOMP in
the snow.
"Ryoko!" Sasami screamed, all thoughts of the snowball fight now
gone from her mind.
The Guardians dropped their snowballs and approached the unconscious
demoness.
"She appears hurt." Azaka noted.
"She is hurt. You two, get her to the house right now!"
"Yes ma'am!" Both logs chirped. As the picked up Ryoko between
them, Kamadaki remembered why they had been out her in the first
place. With a thought, Sasami joined Ryoko inside the force field.
"Hey! No fair!"
"Sorry." The two logs said in unison as they teleported back to the
house.
Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch (TV)
"Come on Tenchi, don't you want to get nice and warm?"
Ryoko purred and crawled across the couch. Tenchi sat at the other
side, and probably would have answered her if not for the gag in his
mouth. Ryoko giggled as Tenchi tried to struggle out of his bonds
and traced a circle on his shirt with her finger.
"We're all alone on a snowy day, just the two of us. Come on,
Tenchi, I'll help you get warm."
"MMmmph!
"What? What was that?" Ryoko put her hand to her ear. "You say you
want me to warm you up?"
"MMMPpph!"
"Ohh Tenchi, you want me to do what?" Ryoko snuggled closer, putting
her hands around his neck.
"MMMPPPPHHH!"
"Oh, come on, Tenchi. Just once try to lighten up and enjoy the
moment, why don't you?"
"Maybe because Lord Tenchi doesn't appreciate being seduced by a
monster woman like you!"
Ryoko froze as an all-too-familiar voice cut through the air like a
knife. Behind Ryoko, Aeka stood, fists clenched and eyes blazing
red.
"How DARE you try such a cheap ploy for Lord Tenchi's affections!
It's time someone taught you a lesson about manners, and that someone
is ME!"
Ryoko, seeing Aeka's logs forming around her person, dropped Tenchi
face first on the couch and summoned her energy sword.
"Come on Aeka, you know that in an all out battle, I'm the stronger,
so why don't you just give up now?"
Aeka and Ryoko stood in a deadlock. Aeka's logs floated all through
the living room, while the ozone from Ryoko's sword started to grow
thick in the air. Aeka was about to advance, that is until she
noticed she was only halfway out of her snowsuit.
"Oh darn! Ohh, get off me you stupid thing!" Aeka continued to
struggle with her newfound foe while Ryoko stood with a smile on her
face. Her light saber now deactivated.
"Ha! You think you can take me on when you can't even defeat a
simple snowsuit? Ahahahahaha!"
Aeka's face turned several new shades of hate as Ryoko rolled across
the floor, convulsing in fits of laughter. After several kicks and
thrashings, the suit finally freed itself from Aeka's foot. Seeing
that Ryoko was distracted, Aeka decided to call in her trump cards.
"Azaka! Kamadake! Teach this monster a lesson!"
At that moment, the two guardians materialized behind Aeka. Aeka
waited one second, then another, then another, until finally she
stood with a look of confusion on her face. Turning a new shade of
red, she turned on her wooden protectors.
"Azaka! Kamadake! Why haven't you."
Aeka never got to finish, as the sight before her took away all form
of rational thought. There, between the two logs, lay an unconscious
Ryoko and sitting beside her, a rather disgruntled Sasami.
"Umm, Miss Aeka," Azaka asked, "which one do we take care of?"
You're going to hate us for this but.
To be continued.
This fic is written in honor of Ryoko's Birthday!